Denver Beer Co.

A handful of breweries? CNN's beer-city list misses the mark on Denver

If you like beer and have an Internet connection, you've probably seen CNN's list of the 8 Best Beer Towns in the USA that went up Monday. While the list was better than most recent beer-city lists produced by national magazines and websites, it certainly had its share of problems. But for my purpo ... More >>

Controversial artist Jason Kay takes on Lance Armstrong's legacy

Craft beer calendar: Odell, Vine Street, Copper Kettle tap tasty new brews

Chad Yakobson became the second small Denver brewer to land some awesome press in the New York Times when some of his quotes and an artsy photo of him at his Crooked Stave Barrel Cellar led off a story last week on sour beers called "Brettanomyces, a Funky Yeast, Makes Flavorful Beers." He follows W ... More >>

Art Meets Beast this weekend at MCA Denver

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany Street, is hosting its second Art Meets Beast festival, honoring the history of the bison. The two-day celebration begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. with a workshop led by Pete Marczyk of Marczyk Fine Foods, who will carve an entire bison; the vegetarian option is a film with food ... More >>

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Wine, beer, bison and benefits on this week's calendar

The 8th Annual Denver International Wine Festival will uncork at the Grand Hyatt Denver this Wednesday, and will pouring into Saturday, November 10. The event will overflow with educational seminars, culinary pairings and a selection of more than 400 wines; check the website for a full schedule of e ... More >>

Looking good! Mayor's Design Awards honor six eating/drinking spots

Restaurants aren't just changing the way Denver eats; they're changing the way this city looks. Last night Mayor Michael Hancock announced the winners of the annual Mayor's Design Awards -- twelve projects cited for excellence in architecture, design and place-creating. "Every great city has excit ... More >>

Denver's five best bike-friendly bars

As Sam Levin reports in this week's cover story, Denver is one of the most bike-friendly cities in the country. But this is also a city that likes to imbibe. Fortunately, there are many Denver watering holes that not only celebrate the bicyclist lifestyle but feature bike-friendly amenities, from pa ... More >>

Five craft beers Obama should drink while he's debating in Denver

President Obama has been making a point of drinking beer on the campaign trail this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Florida. It was a sore spot for him in 2008 when he was seen more as a wine-slurper than an an everyday beer-drinking kind of fellow, but it's a distinct advantage in this year's ra ... More >>

Reader: Colorado microbrews engenders good will

Hurry to Denver Beer Co. if you want to get a taste of Clown Question, Bro, a Canadian lager-style beer that DBC brewed after the Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper called a query regarding his favorite beer "a clown question." But the rookie phenom took the homage in stride, and even called Denver ... More >>

Photos: Pedal power at Denver Beer Co., 4/7/12

The owners of Denver Beer Co. found out how long it takes a bike-powered grain mill to chew up barley when they hooked the mill to a stationary bike,provided by their Platte Street neighbor Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop, and fired up the contraption. Read more: Denver Beer Co. uses pedal power to gr ... More >>

A Denver brewery crawl you can do in one afternoon

Despite the volume of beer being pumped out of this state's kettles, breweries keep opening at a breakneck pace. We're just fine with that, especially when those breweries come with taprooms, because taprooms are a really good way to daytime drink and somehow seem less alcoholic than if you were seq ... More >>

It's not gravy-like green, but Chile Billy turns out some worthy green chile

Green chile-heads, I've noticed, divide into a couple of camps when it comes to debating who makes this city's best version of a food that graces just about every Mexican restaurant's menu in town: half swear by the Colorado-style gravy-like green; the others won't touch it if it's not in the chile- ... More >>

Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Ken S.

Cafe Society dished out five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a bloody Mary at Mona's to a meat market of men (and beer and pretzels) at Denver Beer Co. to a still-unidentified plate of nowhere-near-spicy "Thai spicy shrimp" to a feast of fried chicken, pork chops, collard greens and ma ... More >>

Chile Billy hits the pavement at 16th and Boulder this Wednesday

Bill Yalch may be a Pittsburgh native, but it took just a few trips to the southwest for him to become utterly obsessed with New Mexican food -- namely green chile. "If you live in Pittsburgh, you have no idea what good huevos rancheros are," he admits, adding that he first sampled worthy huevos on ... More >>

Brewer Scott Witsoe: Story in the New York Times was "a day I'll never forget"

The New York Times showed Denver's craft beer scene a little love on Saturday with a story that featured one of the newest -- and smallest -- breweries in town, Wit's End, along with Strange Brewing, Denver Beer Co. and author Ed Sealover. But it was the photo of Wit's End owner Scott Witsoe and hi ... More >>

Beer calendar: One-barrel Wednesday at Strange and firkins at Great Divide and Dry Dock

Great Divide​Great Divide Brewing puts on some great throw-downs, especially during the quarterly release parties it typically holds to fete its seasonal beers, three at a time. But the brewery will take a time-out this month even as it puts its first quarter seasonals -- the new Nomad pilsner ... More >>

Denver's ten best new bars of 2011

This year was a banner year for new restaurants -- as we noted in this week's Year in Review, nearly 300 new places have opened since January 1. Dozens of them included bars, and many more new dives, cocktail lounges, pubs and piano bars gave us still more reasons to go out drinking. Here, in no pa ... More >>

Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Ashley H

Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests last week, ranging from a dogcentric beer at Denver Beer Co. to a plate of gruisidos at Los Dos Potrillos to this rabbit cassoulet. For correctly identifying it as coming from Cheeky Monk, Ashley H wins an EatDenver deck.

Three big beer events tonight

​Pour it on! There are three big beer events in the metro area tonight, so pick your poison wisely. At 7 p.m., Denver Beer Co., 1695 Platte Street, will host a beer dinner in conjunction with Mikes2Kitchen. The $50 dinner will pair four courses with beer; reservations are required. Call 303-4 ... More >>

Sweet Action Ice Cream hosts its third annual Denver Beer Ice Cream Fest

​Most places that want in on this week's beer-y festivities have lined up unusual kegs and interesting events with brewers at their restaurants. Three years ago, Sweet Action Ice Cream, which has no draft lines in its shop, came up with another cool way to get in on the fun: the Denver Beer ... More >>

Reader: Does a tap room have to be in Denver to be one of Denver's best tap rooms?

The gang's all beer at Denver Beer Co.​Denver is awash in beer -- and in opinions about beer, about Jonathan Shike's suggestion of five ways to freshen up the Great American Beer Festival, and about Laura Shunk's list of the area's five best tap rooms. No Liquids and Solids? No Amato's Ale Ho ... More >>

Denver's five best tap rooms

​Denver will be swimming in beer for the rest of the month.This weekend kicks off the week-long Denver Beer Fest -- which happens to overlap with the four-day-long Great American Beer Festival next weekend. We plan to drink our share of pale ales, lagers, pilsners and stouts over the coming d ... More >>

Brewery and bartender collaborations hit Denver taplines in time for GABF

​While we're stoked to sample what seems like millions of beers at the Great American Beer Festival, it's possible that we're actually more excited to see what Denver area restaurants and bars trot out on taplines next week. This event brings in beer geeks from all over the world, and since mo ... More >>

Paris on the Platte celebrates its 25th anniversary -- win a gift basket!

Paris on the Platte, still going strong after 25 years.​The stretch of Platte Street that heads up from 15th Street is one of the hottest restaurant areas in town, with Sushi Sasa swimming in business since it opened six years ago, Colt & Gray packing in the crowds since it joined the scene in ... More >>